globalenigma

I am almost in the same boat as you. This device looked so promising and I have configured it about 100 times, about 45 of those succesfull to find out that if I do anything else, and I mean anything else I loose my configurations (such as get up and I loose my settings) Cameras stop showing or come in blurry and pixelated. I really am thinking about the beta as well. Please give me the balls to go for the upgrade as well!

FISHERMAN, I just went to the urcctvstore downloads section and retrieved the file. It was on an amazon file server. I then put the file on a clean usb stick (although it does not have to be clean). Put the stick in the nvr and went to the upgrade area. (note: you must be plugged into a tv or monitor and have a mouse, I was not able to get it to work through web interface) Once it is upgraded you must reboot immediatly. One other thing is make sure you go in order of firmwares, don't skip one to upgrade.

Hello everyone, I am quite new here. I have an ESCAM mini NVR which is on 20141030 firmware. I have noticed that it has telnet on it but I am really interested in SSH. Has anyone found a way to enable ssh or to add ssh to these NVR's? Thank you in advance! UPDATE: This sounds really dumb, but I am not able to telnet in with admin or the user I created. Is there something special I have to do in order to enable telnet to work? UPDATE AGAIN: Just came across something that has worked for me. Telnet using user: root pass:antslq SSH SOLVED, if interested. Method I used was to cross compile dropbear for the armv7 processor. This is not always the easiest method so I have found another work around for others not interested in cross compiling. First you will need an external HDD attached. - telnet to your device and login root/antslq - navigate to your external hdd (ex cd /tmp/sata/sd0/ (can not remember the exact path right now) - use wget to retrieve a pre-compiled binary wget http://landley.net/aboriginal/downloads/binaries/extras/dropbearmulti-armv6l - now you have to create a link to the binary to call it ln dropbear dropbearmulti-armv6l - you can start dropbear with ./dropbear or options ./dropbear -h This allows you to have an ssh daemon on your mini nvr If you are interested in a full BusyBox you can do a simmilar fix. Links and files must be put on the external hdd as the root is squashfs and would have to be extracted then add dropbear or link and re squash so the example I provided is the easiest way to add it. Service must be started ever time you reboot the nvr. This cn be done through telnet.

Fisherman, Hello there. I am also very new at this. Matter of fact I have only had my ESCAM 8ch Super Mini NVR for a day now. I have managed to upgrade the firmware on it to the 20141030. As far as the USB; I do not believe that the mini nvrs are capable of recording to USB drives as they are too slow. But you should be able to record to a NAS (I believe). I have a usb hdd drive attached but I can not get it to record there either. Not sure if it is a USB limitation or if it is that most usb thumb drives are usually too slow and USB storage is disabled all together. (It could also be that I am new to this and can not get recording to work over usb hdd) Has anyone been successful upgrading to the very latest (beta) 20141229 firmware on an ESCAM super mini NVR (8ch) ? If I brick it do I have to go all the way back and upgrade one by one or is there a shortcut? I believe orsodimare is also in the same boat and has tried this but was unsuccessful. I also have interest and if you figure out how to get to this firmware please let me know!!!